William Stout Chipley

French physiologist and phrenologist Fleury Imbert published a book on diseases in women; it initiated medical theories about eating disorders.

American physician William Stout Chipley offered the first description of sitomania, a phase of insanity characterized by an intense dread of food; the symptoms resembled what was later called anorexia nervosa.

At the annual meeting of the Clinical Society of London , physician Sir William Withey Gull applied his newly-coined label anorexia nervosa as the term for a female nervous disorder. That same year a French...